Emerging Issues in Food Safety - Locally, Nationally and Globally

Why Should You Attend:

The food safety landscape is changing and this presents a litany of challenges to food producers and regulatory bodies to provide consumers with safe food. Prevention is the key, but the issues are complex. We need to work cooperatively from farm to fork if we are to succeed.

This webinar will address the complexity of providing safe food and examine the factors that impact on microbiological food safety. It will look at the changing nature of foodborne/food transmitted pathogens and the influence of demographics and geography on the changing landscape. Attendees will understand cooperative roles and responsibilities for mitigating food contamination in order to prevent foodborne illness.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Defining food safety
• Risks and realities
• Statistical reliability
• The multiplicity of impacting factors
• The changing landscape
• Mitigating the risks

Who Will Benefit:

• Food production managers/supervisors
• Food plant microbiologists
• Microbiological bench analysts
• QA managers
• Laboratory managers/supervisors
• QC practitioners

Instructor Profile:

Michael Brodsky has been an environmental microbiologist for more than 44 years. He is a past president of the Ontario Food Protection Association and AOAC International. He serves as co-chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in microbiology for the AOAC Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) and the AOAC Research Institute, as a reviewer for standard method for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and as a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He is also a lead auditor/assessor in microbiology for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) and is the current vice-chair of the CALA Board of Directors.

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